International Interventional Structural Heart Disease Fellowship Program

ACGME Accredited: No
Residents or Fellows per year: 1
Duration: 1 Year

Postgraduate Training Required: 

1. Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
2. Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
3. Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine Residency Program
4. US citizen, US Permanent Resident/Green Card Holder, and J-1 visas

Residents/Fellows who have graduated our program in the last 10 years obtained faculty positions at:

1. Jackson Memorial Hospital
2. Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Tallahassee, FL
3. SIU School of Medicine-Memorial Medical Center - Springfield, IL
4. Holy Cross Hospital - Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Applicants must satisfy the following requirements by the beginning of the program:

• Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
• Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine Residency Program
• US citizen, US permanent resident, or in possession of a J-1 visa 
• ECFMG-certification if a foreign medical graduate,
• Passing scores on Steps 1, 2, and 3 of USMLE or COMLEX-USA.

Applications must consist of the documents listed below.

• Completed application (see attached)
• Updated CV, including publications
• Medical School transcripts
• One page personal statement detailing your interest in International Interventional Structural Heart Disease training program, as well as career goals
• Medical School Performance Evaluation (formerly the Dean’s letter)
• ECFMG Certificate (International Medical Graduates only)
• USMLE test scores
• Minimum of three recommendation letters, including one from your Interventional Cardiology training program director.
• Proficiency in Spanish preferred
• Photo

All applications are reviewed and candidates for interviews are selected. Applications are not reviewed until all required documents are received by the coordinators.

• October 1st:  Email the above application required documents to: 
  • Johanna Lucena – j.lucena@med.miami.edu
  • Julissa Gutierrez - j.gutierrez@med.miami.edu
• December 31st: Application Deadline. Incomplete or late applications will not be reviewed.
• January: Interviews are conducted.
• February: Final fellow selection is made and the recruited candidates are personally contacted.

Board Exam Requirements

Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease Boards

Educational & Other Experience

Every rotation has its own competency-based curriculum, approved by the Program Director.  Individual curricula document the skills in each of the six competencies that are expected to be acquired at each level of training. A Core Curriculum forms the backbone of the educational experience at all levels of the training program, with focus on 3 general disciplines in cardiology, each of which are taught via a competency-based curriculum.

1. Interventional  cardiac and peripheral procedure 
   
2. Continuity clinic
3. Research

There will be provision of the environment and resources to pursue basic and/or clinical research. Cardiac catheterization staff members and other members of the cardiac unit staff are available to help the fellows in the experimental design, interpretation and analysis of data and preparation of manuscripts. 

The fellows are given ample opportunity to become meaningful participants in research on new devices and techniques in both the pre-clinical and clinical phases. Current areas of investigation include novel device designs, application of new interventional techniques to specific high risk populations, e.g., patients with diabetes mellitus, quantitative imaging analysis, adjunctive pharmacology, long-term follow-up of percutaneous mitral commisurotomy, etc. Fellows interested in in-depth investigation will work closely with senior mentors who act as principal investigators on projects. 

Per ACGME guidelines, fellows are limited to no more than 80 hours of duty per week, must have at least one day in 7 free from duty, including beeper call.  Further, the fellows must spend less than 30 continuous hours in house when on-call, and have at least 8 hours rest period in between shifts.  Moonlighting is counted toward the 80-work-week limit.  Fellows must log their duty hours daily. The program will monitor fellow duty hours, according to sponsoring institutional policies with a frequency sufficient to ensure compliance with ACGME requirements are met.  It will adjust schedules as necessary to mitigate excessive service demands and/or fatigue, and monitor the demands of at-home call and adjust schedules as necessary to mitigate excessive service demands and/or fatigue.

1. Jackson Memorial Hospital
2. University of Miami UHealth Hospital
3. Veterans Administration (VA)
4. Various International Hospitals
   • Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands
   • Angiografia Clinica de Occidente in Cali, Colombia